Race for the Soul sets out to bring awareness to, and provide for, the needs of people in Central Ohio and throughout the world. Through the efforts of our beneficiaries, hundreds of thousands of people have been provided food, clean drinking water, medical assistance, along with a vast array of other physical and emotional needs.
This Year, we aim to have 1,000 runners and walkers raise over $20,000 to impact lives here in central Ohio and to sponsor multiple orphaned children around the globe to provide their physical and spiritual needs through Vision trust.
In 2010, nearly 400 runners and walkers raised over $12,000 to impact lives from Ohio to Haiti through our beneficiaries, Better Way and Surgance. We enabled Better Way Ministries to continue to reach out to the meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of people in Columbus Ohio mired in urban poverty, and provided funding for the reconstruction of an orphanage in Haiti.
In 2009, over 350 runners and walkers participated in the 3rd Annual Race for the Soul and helped raise over $10,000 for Better Way, The Stowe Center and Thirst Relief International. Click here to watch a video from the 2009 event.
In 2008, over 200 runners and walkers participated in the 2nd Annual Race for the Soul and helped raise over $7,000 for both Better Way and Life 2 Orphans.
In 2007, 100 runners and walkers participated in the Inaugural Race for the Soul and helped raise $3,000 for our beneficiary, Better Way Ministries, a ministry and mission in downtown Columbus. This was the only fund raising event Better Way had for the year and it allowed them to provide hundreds of people with the assistance they needed. On race day, Wanda Campbell, President of Better Way, shared a very rewarding story about a group of homeless individuals who had asked her for tents to sleep in outside. At first she thought they didn’t have the available funds to help them until she remembered about the money coming in from the race.